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Singularity, the next big thing?
05 March 08 12:02 PM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

Yes, Microsoft Research center now opened the source code of the Singularity project. This is a C# based operating system, is that the future of the next platform? The concept behind is clear, "We asked ourselves: If we were going to start over,...

Filed under: Thinking

AJAX or the Web v2.0
07 November 05 10:44 AM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

AJAX, or Asyncronous Javascript and XML is more and more know as the next version of the web. For sure that a web interface that do not refresh itself when browsing from a page to an other is an better experience that a flash, that half the time is more...

Filed under: Programming, Thinking, Architecturing

SQL Tip: Enter Null Values
27 June 05 08:59 AM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

Ever wonder how to enter null while editing directly a table in enterprise manager? Ending by manually creating Update SQL Statement? Try CTRL-0! -f.

Filed under: Thinking

Beta or not Beta
01 June 05 10:25 AM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

I've recently started to work on a project (really big, about 700 mendays) with Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 and I am thinking about the stage that should be a product prior to be released as a beta product. Is there a way to test the product before releasing...

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Newbies that think they are not.
08 May 05 04:45 PM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

Search for the previous bug I had, I've saw one post saying "If outlook is slow, ie hang on load etc, it's because of the DTC, just go to dcomcfg and stop it, everything will be great." That solved the problem, for sure, because the problem was about...

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Amazon, IMDB, A9, Alexa and More
29 April 05 07:22 PM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

I recently discovered that Amazon is now owning the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) , and is also the holder of A9, the new search engine. Is amazon the future of data aggregation on the internet? I am sure, one or two years from now, the IMDb will be...

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Realtime Benefits
12 April 05 05:00 PM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

I have currently a couple of websites that are generating some revenues, but they have some expenses like almost of the company. The problem is every time that I look at them, I must recalculate everything, to know exacky when I'm currently making money...

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Want some challenge??
08 April 05 09:06 AM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

Your life is boring, and you need something challenging? Take a look at X-prize , you have to build a sub-orbital engine that can go 100km up and come back in two weeks, you could win about 10 million!

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Finally up!
06 April 05 07:38 AM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

After hours of programmation, trying to re-invent the wheel by doing a tool that includes blogs, and picture gallery, I've finally scraped all my work to setup this out-of-the-box product that includes all that I want. This blog will be entirely be targetted...

Filed under: Thinking